Then set in 18th century Naples, in 2018—this version a co-production with Opera de Monte Carlo and San Francisco Opera, originally directed by Joh NCox—it’s been “modernized” to 1914 (the beginning of World War I) at an unnamed resort in Monte Carlo, that playground of the wealthy.The Metropolitan Opera Presents book. Thought to be a bit too provocative, it didn’t make it to American shores for over a century, premiering at The Met in 1922 and arriving in Chicago for the first time in 1959. A playful, silly story of mistaken identity and romantic fidelity (or lack thereof) set to music by Mozart, it debuted in Vienna in 1790. That all may be changing thanks to a hugely entertaining production of Cosi fan tutte at Lyric Opera of Chicago (select performances now through March 16). In this new production of Mozart’s effervescent comedy of young love and infidelity, director Phelim McDermott and his team of designers have updated the opera’s setting to a boardwalk amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s.
Cosi Fan Tutte Met Review Plus 60 Others
Of course, Fiordiligi (Ana Maria Martinez) and Dorabella (Marianne Crebassa) are at first bereft at the loss of their sweethearts, mooning and moaning at their own misfortune. Every possible impression of lovefrom the loftiest to the basestis explored in this extraordinary opera.But then, we wouldn’t have much of a show, would we?Cos fan tutte was a Levine specialty, and though the Met is scrubbing his name from its website and program books, he conducted the most recent performance of the opera, in 2014, plus 60 others. Cos&236 still poses unique challenges, and correspondingly unique rewards, for the public today. Cos&236 fan tutte was only moderately successful at its premiere and remained just outside the standard repertoire for more than a century. For a long time, Cos fan tutte was considered scandalous.
It’s all quite a show just to win a bet.There are more than a few genuine laugh-out-loud moments in the course of the farce, and just the idea that opera, in all its soaring notes and lush productions, could also be approachable in this way, funny and smart and, well, entertaining…it’s all more than one as uninitiated as me ever dared hope. Here comes the doctor—or is it just Despina in a silly doctor’s disguise? (It is.) And the doctor has some contraption to shock them back to life. In one sequence, the men pretend to take poison, so desolate are they after the women reject them. The first half of the two-act show (with one intermission, it’s a hefty three-and-a-half hours) sees the ladies resisting the advances of the now-bearded soldiers, their resolve to stay true to their lovers quite commendable.It’s in the second act where things really begin to go haywire, when Fiordiligi and Dorabella are convinced to give in to the soldiers’ advances, thanks to some comical nudges from Alfonso and Despina. Debut), to help him do so.
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